It's simple, really.

We are like kites. The vertical stick of the kite of your Genius runs between yourself and the spiritual world where you get your inspirations and insights. The horizontal stick runs between you to your family and community.

We bend or arc these sticks through our efforts or experiences so that our kite cannot just survive in the headwinds of life, but gain lift and rise up. We can fine-tune the airfoil of our lives to withstand even greater headwinds.

The secret is that the kite of you, of your Genius, is connected with many others — friends, family, or workplace. When you rise, you lift them, too.

How does this book help?

The key to self-understanding is to take even a very brief moment of self-reflection. What is it that that gives us lift? Or, why am I spinning out of control? Or feeling dragged down with no lift? Or, how do I change my thinking?

Each chapter in this book offers you the opportunity to read one or another of the short essays or intense creative nonfiction pieces (meaning “quick reads”). They are about the struggles of life. They may be different than your life, but considering them by contrast or comparison changes your thinking and offers a very brief moment of clarity. 

They are not about fantasy, fiction, romance; they are about your life.

There is no set order, and you can return to any one of the other any time you wish.

It is as simple as that.

Sail on!

CONTENTS

The Kite Of Your Genius

Lifts Your Community

KITE OF YOUR GENIUS – “In kite making, you have to add tension to have enough arc to generate lift.”

FROM NAÏVE IDEALISM TO ACHIEVED IDEALISM – “We meet our true capacities in this tussle over idealism.”

I AM YOUR NESTED SYSTEM – “Lend me your Higher Self, will ya?”

YOU AND WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE DREAM ONE ANOTHER – “We are all sleepers in the dreams of others. Before you were born, lofty spiritual beings dreamed you into existence.”

I AM YOUR CRISIS – “I want to live, and love, in universal imperfection. Couch surf with your karmic carpool.”

LET’S REVERSE OUR WILL, SHALL WE? – “And struggle for the New Faithfulness.”

AGE 28 – 35 – THE WISER PERSON WITHIN US – “Yoo-hoo! Someone is leading the change.”

REMIX – “FACING KARMA” – Steiner lecture excerpts REMIXED and contemporary rock lyrics: Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bruce Springsteen, and more.

DEVOTION BECOMES SACRIFICE – “Self-sacrifice is terribly uncomfortable,

 just ask the seed.”

THE SUBSTANCE OF LOVE – “My Auntie Helen transformed the ‘Instance Rice’ into the Substance of Love.”

SELECTING OMENS –“The spiritual world relies on we humans to be responsible for life in the material world.”

REPORT OF TEACHING RUDOLF STEINER’S SIX SUBSIDIARY EXERCISES IN MY LOCAL JAIL – Simple as that.

SHE COAXES THE HUMAN SPIRIT - “Agonizingly, slowly she can hear the heart creaking open…”

 ARDUOUS कठिन beschwerlich ardu 艱鉅 つらい и взрывоопасных مشکل - “I feel my star, My star finds me…”

WHO LETS THE DOGS OUT? I keep three big dogs: Anger, Doubt and Hate.

I AM DISINCARNATION - AGE 42 - “The gradual grapevine dance step off the stage of life.”

PINBALL AGE – “I am now propelled by the gravity of aging and the inertia of my vanities.”    

CALL TO ACTION – “The Kite Of Your Genius Lifts Your Community” The Genius Of The Communities Lifts The Society.